TITLE: The House in the NightAUTHOR: Susan Marie Swanson
STARTED: May 23, 2009
FINISHED: May 23, 2009
PAGES: 40
GENRE: Juvenile
FIRST SENTENCE: Here is the key to the house.
SUMMARY: [From barnesandnoble.com] A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers—a key, a bed, the moon—this timeless book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe.
THOUGHTS: I found the illustrations better than the story - this book reminded me a lot of Goodnight Moon and I am biased toward that classic. The very simple color scheme and splashes of yellow make this book very nice to look at, but beyond that it was just okay for me. I can see how reading this to a child at night would be very comforting, the text is simple, cyclical, and soothing.
RATING: 5/10 [Meh]
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